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Rewrite External Changes dialog to use the Merge Entries dialog #273

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koppor opened this issue Dec 7, 2017 · 3 comments
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Rewrite External Changes dialog to use the Merge Entries dialog #273

koppor opened this issue Dec 7, 2017 · 3 comments
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koppor commented Dec 7, 2017

When a bibtex file is modified externally, JabRef shows it at the left side:

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After clicking "Review changes", following dialog pops up:

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To be consistent with the other JabRef dialogs, it should render as follows:

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See https://help.jabref.org/en/MergeEntries

If possible, rewrite in JavaFX.

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Only works for entries and not for metadata!

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koppor commented Feb 17, 2018

Sure. I asusme that mostly BibTeX entries are changed externally. The Merge Entries Dialog is more intuitive than the old one.

Metadata is serialised as follows:

@Comment{jabref-meta: keypattern_techreport:[authorsAlpha][year]-TR;}

Thus, the overall concept is

@Comment{jabref-meta: KEY:VALUE}

So, the merge entries dialog can be reused to list all KEYs as field and all VALUEs as values of the fields.

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koppor commented Jun 13, 2022

The latest JabRef is "good enough"

Howver, in the context of the meta data, we show barly anything what's changed:

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